The Great Firewall of China - US whispers... please remove the wall.
source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/24/AR2009062403452.html
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Senior U.S. officials are pressuring the Chinese government to shelve a proposed rule that would require all computers shipped in China to be equipped with Web-filtering software, citing concerns that the order may violate China's commitments under the World Trade Organization.
U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke raised the objections, the most serious so far, in joint letters to two Chinese ministries yesterday.
"China is putting companies at an untenable position by requiring them, with virtually no public notice, to pre-install software that appears to have broad-based censorship implications and network security issues," Locke said in a separate statement.
The filtering software requirement, which is scheduled to go into effect July 1, was designed to block pornographic content, according to Chinese officials. But Internet researchers have found that the software can also filter political content, expanding China's already robust efforts to restrict access to the Internet.
Officials at the Chinese embassy could not be reached for comment.
Online surveillance researchers say the filtering software has the capabilities to block political and religious content often associated with China's sophisticated national filtering system, referred to as the Great Firewall of China.
U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke raised the objections, the most serious so far, in joint letters to two Chinese ministries yesterday.
"China is putting companies at an untenable position by requiring them, with virtually no public notice, to pre-install software that appears to have broad-based censorship implications and network security issues," Locke said in a separate statement.
The filtering software requirement, which is scheduled to go into effect July 1, was designed to block pornographic content, according to Chinese officials. But Internet researchers have found that the software can also filter political content, expanding China's already robust efforts to restrict access to the Internet.
Officials at the Chinese embassy could not be reached for comment.
Online surveillance researchers say the filtering software has the capabilities to block political and religious content often associated with China's sophisticated national filtering system, referred to as the Great Firewall of China.
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arcticspirit
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My original graphic is no longer online. I think the URL was from china. It' was an awesome wall of china on fire... oh wells.
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@hovo on twitter says "US Presses China on Censorship: Washington Post A recent report released by the OpenNet Initiative, a joint proj.."
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arcticspirit
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This would clearly be a Ronald Regan moment!
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arcticspirit
